Last day of good weather before the rain; perfect temps and a little wind. No one on the trail besides my party and a swarm of wasps (I was last in line and got four stings). The views from the top were amazing. My first time up, my buddies' umpteenth; now I know why they keep coming back.

"As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life - so I became a scientist. This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls."
--M. Cartmill